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Quote from Auberon Herbert,


"... every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive."


By:

Auberon Herbert (more quotes by Auberon Herbert or books by/about Auberon Herbert)


(1838-1906) English writer, theorist, philosopher, 19th century individualist, member of the Parliament of the U.K.

Source:

"The Principles of Voluntaryism" [1897], reproduced in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays by Auberon Herbert (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1978), p. 393

Categories:

Coercion, Morality, Oppression, Statism, Taxation, Tax

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